Share:Minister for Defence, Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday said the recent talks with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) bore no concrete outcomes whereas the armed forces were fully capable to contain any threat to national security. The Minister added that the success of relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan was of great significance as Pakistan could not remain oblivious to what was happening in Afghanistan. Khawaja Asif said the national Security at present was fundamentally the economic security of a state. “The media wars during USSR and USA cold war have been fought between them on print media and a bit on electronic media. “I had held the process of appointments of two Army Chiefs in my tenure as defence minister and it had never been such discussion on this issue.

Source: The Nation October 15, 2022 01:26 UTC